2020 Baseball Roster
Roster
Alex Nelms
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 230
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Gulfport, Miss.
- High School:
- Gulfport HS
2020 (Sr.): Did not appear in any games during season…Made the Dean’s List for the Fall 2019 semester…2019 (Jr.): Appeared in 19 games, including two starts, and registered a save with no record and a 5.63 ERA…Fanned 32 and walked 16 in 25 1/3 innings…Started the season with consecutive scoreless three inning outings against Purdue (2/17) and New Orleans (2/26)…His UNO outing saw him fan a career-best six Privateers…Allowed a .214 batting average against first batters faced in a relief outing…Fanned 13 batters in a four-game stretch, spanning 9 1/3 innings early in the year…Allowed just two runs over a pair of starts in which he threw five innings…Earned Dean’s List honors during the Spring 2019 and Fall 2018 semesters…Awarded a C-USA Academic Medal and was a member of the Commissioner’s Honor Roll…2018 (So.): Did not post a record, but did have a save with an 8.71 ERA over seven appearances, accumulating 10 1/3 innings…Fanned nine and walked just one…Lone save came in his final appearance of the campaign at Marshall (5/19) in which he allowed an unearned run on three hits over two innings of work…Fanned season-high four against Louisiana-Lafayette (4/3)…Allowed only two earned runs over his final four outings, spanning seven innings…A member of the Dean’s List for the Spring 2018 and Fall 2017 semesters…Collected a C-USA Academic Medal and was a Commissioner’s Honor Roll member…2017 (Fr.): Appeared in 14 games, including a start against Nicholls State (4/18) in Biloxi…Finished 1-0 with 5.30 ERA…First career win came versus Columbia (3/15) as he allowed a run on a hit, with a walk and four strikeouts over three innings…Also went three innings, allowing a run on one hit with career-high four strikeouts against New Orleans (3/29)…Went career-long 3 2/3 innings vs. Nicholls (4/18) in his lone start…Went at least one inning in 10 of 14 appearances…Closed out a win at C-USA tournament, allowing a couple hits and a run in ninth inning to UTSA (5/26)….Named to the 2017 Spring semester Dean’s List and the 2016 Fall semester President’s List…Prep: Played for Coach Jamie McMahon…Three-time baseball letterman…As senior, went 6-2 with 0.36 ERA…Struck out 63, walked 11 in 59 innings…First-team All-District; second-team All-State…Played in Crossroads Diamond Club All-Star Baseball Game…As junior, appeared in 12 games, including 10 starts with two shutouts…Finished 3-4 with 1.98 ERA…Struck out 56, walked 10 in 56 2/3 innings…Played in Mississippi State Games, East-West All-Star Baseball Game…Kiwanis Club player of month in each of junior/senior seasons...Personal: Son of Kathi and Johnny Nelms…Majoring in Biomedical Science with a minor in Chemistry…Born June 24, 1998.
